Inmate Sentenced for Filing False Tax Return

U.S. Attorney’s Office
December 03, 2009

Eastern District of Wisconsin(414) 297-1700

MADISON, WI—Stephen P. Sinnott, Acting United States Attorney for the
Western District of Wisconsin, announced that Darnell Moon, 21, an inmate at the
Federal Correctional Institution at Oxford, Wis., was sentenced today by U.S. District
Judge Barbara B. Crabb to 14 months in prison for filing a false tax return. Moon
pleaded guilty to this charge on September 23, 2009.

Between May and August 2008, Moon, while serving a 78-month sentence for
armed bank robbery, prepared and mailed 26 tax returns to the Internal Revenue
Service (IRS), claiming tax refunds totaling $54,881. Moon used the names and social
security numbers of ten other inmates incarcerated with him at FCI-Oxford to prepare
the false tax returns.

The IRS identified the false returns by utilizing its system which scrutinizes tax
returns submitted by federal inmates and when multiple returns are prepared by the
same person. As a result, the IRS did not pay any of the illegally claimed tax refunds.

Judge Crabb further ordered that Moon's entire sentence be served consecutively
to his current federal sentence for bank robbery. As a result, Moon will not be eligible
for release from prison until April 13, 2014.

The charges against Moon were the result of an investigation conducted by the
Internal Revenue Service, Criminal investigation Division and the Federal Bureau of
Investigation. The prosecution of the case has been handled by Assistant U.S. Attorney
Paul W. Connell.